Patience Wheatcroft

Patience Wheatcroft former editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe and winner of the Wincott Award for Senior Financial Journalism is an engaging conference and after dinner speaker.

Patience Wheatcroft was the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal Europe until February 2011. Prior to joining the Journal, Ms. Wheatcroft served as a non-executive director of Barclays plc and Shaftesbury plc as well as a consultant on business and public affairs.

In 2008, she was appointed to chair The Mayor’s Forensic Audit Panel investigating the finance and governance of the Greater London Authority and London Development Agency. The Panel delivered its report later that year. Up until this time, Patience had spent her career in journalism, culminating in the editorship of the Sunday Telegraph, which she took on in 2006.

Previously, she was Business and City Editor of The Times for nine years from 1997, where she wrote a daily commentary column on business matters in addition to a weekly column addressing broader political and social issues. Her newspaper career began with the Daily Mail and included roles at the Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph. In 1986, she launched the specialist trade publication, Retail Week, and edited it for five years.

She has appeared frequently on radio and television and is a regular speaker at conferences and dinners. She has won the Wincott Award for Senior Financial Journalism and several other industry awards. In 2006, she received an honorary doctorate from City University in London.

Ms Wheatcroft is a member of the British Olympic Association Advisory Board, the UK/India Round Table and the Council of the Royal Albert Hall, a visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation and a member of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford.

In July 2010 Ms Wheatcroft was appointed to the Board of the British Museum and in December was created a life peer as Baroness Wheatcroft of Blackheath.